Hour 2: First Glow

Ember & Codex — A 24-hour cinematic story It happens without warning. Elara is reading — a simple history of the First Keepers — when the page beneath her fingers begins to warm. The leather binding hums, low and resonant. Light bleeds through the edges of the closed book. Not reflected light. Something from inside. The Codex has been dormant for decades. Now it's glowing. She should close it. Every instinct says: close the book, walk away. Instead, she opens to the first glowing page. The words are rewriting themselves. — Hour 3 in 60 minutes. Some spells are written in fire. Some are carried in silence.